---
title: "langfair"
type: "tool"
slug: "cvs-health-langfair"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/cvs-health-langfair"
github_url: "https://github.com/cvs-health/langfair"
homepage_url: "https://cvs-health.github.io/langfair/"
stars: 260
forks: 46
primary_language: "Python"
license: "Other"
archived: false
categories: ["llm-frameworks", "developer-tools", "computer-vision"]
tags: ["ethical-ai", "ai-safety", "bias", "ai", "artificial-intelligence", "fairness-ai", "bias-detection", "fairness"]
updated_at: "2026-07-11T10:45:34.459849+00:00"
---
# langfair
> LangFair is a Python library for conducting use-case level LLM bias and fairness assessments
LangFair is a Python library for conducting use-case level LLM bias and fairness assessments
## Facts
- Repository: https://github.com/cvs-health/langfair
- Homepage: https://cvs-health.github.io/langfair/
- Stars: 260 · Forks: 46 · Open issues: 23 · Watchers: 4
- Primary language: Python
- License: Other
- Last pushed: 2026-06-29T20:15:23+00:00
## Trust & health
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## Categories
- [LLM Frameworks](/categories/llm-frameworks.md)
- [Developer Tools](/categories/developer-tools.md)
- [Computer Vision](/categories/computer-vision.md)
## Tags
ethical-ai, ai-safety, bias, ai, artificial-intelligence, fairness-ai, bias-detection, fairness
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## README (excerpt)
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````text
# LangFair: Use-Case Level LLM Bias and Fairness Assessments
LangFair is a comprehensive Python library designed for conducting bias and fairness assessments of large language model (LLM) use cases. This repository includes various supporting resources, including
- [Documentation site](https://cvs-health.github.io/langfair/) with complete API reference
- [Comprehensive framework](https://github.com/cvs-health/langfair/tree/main#-choosing-bias-and-fairness-metrics-for-an-llm-use-case) for choosing bias and fairness metrics
- [Demo notebooks](https://github.com/cvs-health/langfair/tree/main#-example-notebooks) providing illustrative examples
- [LangFair tutorial](https://medium.com/cvs-health-tech-blog/how-to-assess-your-llm-use-case-for-bias-and-fairness-with-langfair-7be89c0c4fab) on Medium
- [Software paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03112v1) on how LangFair compares to other toolkits
- [Research paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10853) on our evaluation approach
## 🚀 Why Choose LangFair?
Static benchmark assessments, which are typically assumed to be sufficiently representative, often fall short in capturing the risks associated with all possible use cases of LLMs. These models are increasingly used in various applications, including recommendation systems, classification, text generation, and summarization. However, evaluating these models without considering use-case-specific prompts can lead to misleading assessments of their performance, especially regarding bias and fairness risks.
LangFair addresses this gap by adopting a Bring Your Own Prompts (BYOP) approach, allowing users to tailor bias and fairness evaluations to their specific use cases. This ensures that the metrics computed reflect the true performance of the LLMs in real-world scenarios, where prompt-specific risks are critical. Additionally, LangFair's focus is on output-based metrics that are practical for governance audits and real-world testing, without needing access to internal model states.
**Note:** This diagram illustrates the workflow for assessing bias and fairness in text generation and summarization use cases.
## ⚡ Quickstart Guide
### (Optional) Create a virtual environment for using LangFair
We recommend creating a new virtual environment using venv before installing LangFair. To do so, please follow instructions [here](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html).
### Installing LangFair
The latest version can be installed from PyPI:
```bash
pip install langfair
```
### Usage Examples
Below are code samples illustrating how to use LangFair to assess bias and fairness risks in text generation and summarization use cases. The below examples assume the user has already defined a list of prompts from their use case, `prompts`.
##### Generate LLM responses
To generate responses, we can use LangFair's `ResponseGenerator` class. First, we must create a `langchain` LLM object. Below we use `ChatVertexAI`, but **any of [LangChain’s LLM classes](https://js.langchain.com/docs/integrations/chat/) may be used instead**. Note that `InMemoryRateLimiter` is to used to avoid rate limit errors.
```python
from langchain_google_vertexai import ChatVertexAI
from langchain_core.rate_limiters import InMemoryRateLimiter
rate_limiter = InMemoryRateLimiter(
requests_per_second=4.5, check_every_n_seconds=0.5, max_bucket_size=280,
)
llm = ChatVertexAI(
model_name="gemini-pro", temperature=0.3, rate_limiter=rate_limiter
)
```
We can use `ResponseGenerator.generate_responses` to generate 25 responses for each prompt, as is convention for toxicity evaluation.
```python
from langfair.generator import ResponseGenerator
rg = ResponseGenerator(langchain_llm=llm)
generat
````
---
**Machine-readable endpoints**
- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/cvs-health-langfair`](/api/graphcanon/tools/cvs-health-langfair)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)
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